Samford OperaWorks Will Present ´Gianni Schicchi' and ´The Cabildo'

Samford University OperaWorks will present Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Amy Beach's The Cabildo April 2-4.

Samford performers will stage the two one-act operas at 7:30 p.m. in Brock Recital Hall. Dr. G. William Bugg directs. An orchestra of Samford musicians will accompany.

Baritone Joseph Hopkins, dean of the Samford School of the Arts, will sing the title role of Gianni Schicchi.

While Dr. Hopkins has sung leading roles with the Dallas Lyric Opera and Operafestival di Roma in Italy, and given many other solo performances in the U.S. and abroad, this will be his operatic debut in Birmingham.